When Frank and Joe arrive to test-drive the prototype of a world-class sports car, they discover that someone has tampered with the car. It becomes a death trap.
Frank and Joe investigate the disappearance of the owner and designer of a new maze in Nova Scotia and encounter a ten-year-old mystery connected to it.
Frank and Joe unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other concerned with a national security case on which their father is working.
The art collector who suspects the Hardy boys of stealing one of his valuable paintings offers them a chance to find the painting and the real culprits.